Ports that are never meant to be up (compute-storage-01 nic1-3, large1's
spare NIC and USB adapter) kept their hosts "degraded" and were the source
of tonight's false alerts. An admin can now mark an interface unused from
the device page, with an optional reason. Unused interfaces raise no
link-down alerts, don't count toward the cluster-wide alert or the host's
status, and show greyed as "unused" on the dashboard, device page and rack.
Marking one closes any open link-down alert on it without a recovery note.
New table unused_interfaces, created with the cutsheet tables.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
jaredandClaude Opus 5.5